When Beth offered up her gorgeous gang of rescued cats and dogs as models, I jumped at the chance and I have to tell you, I'm already more than a little bit in love with them all! We're going to be drawing a real variety of canine & feline shapes and characters and I just know you are going to love it!!

I thought this session had all the makings of something super fun and special, so feeling inspired by being invited into another illustrator's home, I thought we'd do something a little different by following a 'Observation - Illustration' format... Let me explain...

For the first hour we'll be drawing Beth's dogs & Cats purely observationally, gathering all the visual information we can to capture their form, movement and character. I'm going to have a camera on my drawing space and the screen will be split so that you…